Standard+B+Nature+of+Science

[|http://www.brainpop.com/science/matter/atomicmodel/preview.weml]Type in the content of your page here. Title: Brain Pop - atomic model movie Dexcription: movie grades K - 3 Students are guided through history in this BrainPop movie. The movie describes ways in which scientists have constructed numerous models of the atom over the years. Students learn how electrons and neutrons were discovered, and how scientists realzed that atoms are composed mostly of empty space. Cindy Ladd[[http://www.brighthub.com/education/k-12/articles/54479.aspx|

(Kristin Pascucci)
 * Rules of Science**]]
 * Title:** Rules of Science
 * Grade Level: ** 3
 * Description: ** Students will learn how the rules of science can change and how developments made in the tools of science can change classifications or definitions in science. I.e. The idea that Pluto is no longer a planet. Pluto itself did not change, just the rules of how we define a planet have changed.

Pam Schimaski
 * Office of Space Science Education
 * Students will complete a provided table on the planets including information such as rotation rate, length of year, atmosphere, escape velocity by researching the information available on the web.


 * 1) Grade: 6-8
 * 2) [|Office of Space]

[|Celebrating 100 Years of Flight] Students will learn about the history of flight for the past one hundred years, focus on three periods: the invention of airplanes (by the Wright brothers), the introduction of women pilots (Amelia Earhart), and the space race, and they will write and publish their own "100 Years of Flight" news article. [] [|Pangea] Plate Tectonics, Grades 6-8, Two hundred and fifty million years //ago// the landmasses of Earth were clustered into one supercontinent dubbed Pangea. As the present-day continents slowly converge during the //next// 250 million years it looks to form another mega-continent: Pangea Ultima. Take a look into what Pangea looked like, and what Pangea Ultima potential will look like. (Pam Belongia) [|**Pluto a Planet No More**] [|Space Missions] >>> [|nature of science first day activity]
 * 1) Pam Schimanski
 * 2) Fossils 1: Fossils and Dinosaurs
 * 3) Students will understand what can be learned from fossils and in doing so, realize the difference between fact and theory (idea). They will also gain a general understanding of how fossils are formed.
 * 4) Grade: 3-5
 * 5) [|Fossils 1: Fossils and Dinosaurs]
 * Grades 3-5
 * Pluto a Planet No More**
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